Hunters

Examples

• The hunters of the third and last stage of the later Pal?olithic Age appear to have supplemented a diminishing food supply by fishing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Among nations of hunters, such as the native tribes of North America, age is the sole foundation of rank and precedency. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• You two might go forth homeless hunters to the loneliest western wilds; all would be well with you. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The Indian men, when young, are hunters and warriors; when old, counsellors; for all their government is by the council or advice of the sages. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I think they wear them to show they are chamois hunters. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• When the Devil goeth about like a roaring lion, he goeth about in a shape by which few but savages and hunters are attracted. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The Earliest Hunters. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• They live by the crook and the bow; half shepherds, half hunters, their flocks wander wild as their prey. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• A nation of hunters can never be formidable to the civilized nations in their neighbourhood; a nation of shepherds may. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The hunters carry big shields and spears, and stand in rows one behind the other. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• These hunters lived on open steppes for two hundred centuries or so, ten times the length of the Christian era. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We're both as hungry as hunters, so we shan't mind what it is. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• One of these stub-hunters followed us all over the park last night, and we never had a smoke that was worth anything. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• An army of hunters can seldom exceed two or three hundred men. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In a tribe of hunters or shepherds, a particular person makes bows and arrows, for example, with more readiness and dexterity than any other. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Two of our young hunters, having killed a deer, made a fire in the woods to broil some parts of it. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Hunters kill animals and soldiers kill men. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Invented early in the seventeenth century, it was used by the hunters and soldiers of the next two hundred years. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• A proper establishment of servants, a carriage, perhaps two, and hunters, cannot be supported on less. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• The people were farmers and hunters and somewhat drunken in their habits, but ready for discipline and good fighting stuff. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Hence the pictures and postal cards sold largely to souvenir-hunters as the Port Huron home do not actually show that in or around which the events now referred to took place. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• That angular shadow up yonder was the bait, and we were the hunters. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• There were the lion-hunters and celebrities, of whom Sarah Bernhardt may serve as a type. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It was a party of belated hunters returning from the north, and among them they half led, half carried a struggling animal. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The first period of society, that of hunters, admits of no such inequality. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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